My GF bought the star wars one. It's kind of a PITA to put together, but it's ok for what it is. It's WAY better than attempts in the past (anyone remember the Target arcade with the 13" monitor with a huge bezel to make it look like a 19"?).

For just playing a game it's fine. I'm not going to try and break world records on it. It's fun. It REALLY needs a rapid fire mod as my carpal tunnel flares on an average game.

Any future video games I'd probably get a purpose built arcade cab and stuff it myself with the RasPi - already have that connected to the TV for occasional gaming. That's all I seem to do with classic games, just a casual play once in a while. Most of the time on Ms Pacman I play one man and turn it off, and I only like the speed up version.

A buddy has a LOT of the 1up cabs, there's a huge mod community for them. He has a cab setup to play Tron like the arcade, etc. I'd rather use the real estate in the basement for pins.

The 1-up Star Wars doesn't have lag where the original arcade game does - when you blow up the death star, there's so many vectors on the screen drawing the tunnel effect that the game visibly slows down. When I played the 1up I specifically looked for this lag.

For the nostalgia set, 1up is fine. For the more stringent collector, mame or better (original cab) is fine as well.

In the case of 1up, I didn't really have a choice. It became available and my GF ordered it without checking because she wanted it. (Star Wars fan)

I did however refuse to remove one of the pinballs from the basement to "fit it in" - it lives next to another game now and gets moved when I have to take the glass off the game opposite.